Thanks, Lynn, for sharing your thoughts on how we view treatment modalities (and the world in general). Not everything that is important, is easy to measure. Not everything that is easy to measure, is important. That said, I confess to being a positivist. I like to delude myself that I have seen evidence of a phenomenon, or can at least entertain an earthbound explanation for it before I take it on board. And I bristle at the idea that attempting to observe something in order to evaluate its effectiveness, or safety, may in itself cause the 'something' to cease to exist, or at least to cease working. It is so far from my belief system that I just check out of the discussion at that point, bristling silently with my teeth on edge. Yes, there is more to life than what I can understand with my logical mind. No, I can not as an employee of a public hospital in a biomedical paradigm espouse the use of therapies invoking the supernatural or the intentionally inexplicable. This does not prevent me from referring to our staff acupuncturists, nor to external practitioners of CST, (though the latter is not covered by the national health plan), nor recommending empirically documented folk remedies. Remember, I live in the country that gave the world limpet shells to treat sore nipples :-P Rachel Myr Kristiansand, Norway who remembers when it was thought that disablingly painful menstrual cramps were due to a woman's negative attitude to her own gender - back before they discovered prostaglandins. *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome